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Message-ID: <20100601214820.GB18864@srcf.ucam.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 22:48:20 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]X86:reboot.c Add some dmi entries to
pci_reboot_dmi_table.
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:43:12PM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 02:29 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> So, just to be clear, you run this as root and it immediately returns
>> you to the prompt? This seems unlikely.
>
> yep.. with the above code
> I (save to a file) then
> non-root gcc reboot.c -o reboot
> then su
> ./reboot
> just bake to the command prompt
Are you running some sort of security policy that might block hardware
access? I'm going to have to find one of these machines to test with -
on everything I have here, the cf9 write and the keyboard controller
write both generate reboots. The worst case should be a hung machine,
not one that continues running...
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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